Tourism infrastructure in Bonaire is contemporary and based on time-share resorts.

More recently the house was divided into apartments, and operated as a time-share resort until January 2008.

For a lot of serious travelers, the words "shopping mall" are as ugly as "time-share resort."

Typically, a week at a time-share resort costs an average of $9,500, according to the American Resorts Development Association, the trade group representing time shares.

The United States has 43.6 percent of the world total of time-share resorts and Americans account for 60 percent of all time-share owners.

Most time-share resorts are affiliated with one of the major vacation exchange services, Interval International and Resort Condominiums International.

It is trying to sell stock in a company called Sporting Houses Management, which proposes to build a time-share resort and brothel in Nevada.

Her father works for an airline, her mother works at a time-share resort and her brother is a concierge.

There will also be what the project director, Charles Schmidt, describes as an up-to-date health club that's far larger than those at most time-share resorts.

And although time-share resorts were once created from renovated hotels, now they are built from scratch and tend to be more luxurious and better designed.